MLL 242 - Intermediate Spanish II: Hispanophone American Sociocultural Issues

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-D1-2
Focus on intermediate level Spanish acquisition, application and communication necessary for everyday and professional use. With a holistic approach, students will learn to identify and analyze socio-cultural-linguistic traits and concepts relevant to the Spanish speaking community.

Prerequisites: MLL 241.
Equivalent Quarter Course: MLL 2402 and MLL 2403.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 8 units.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-D1-2 - Lower Division Social Sciences
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Possess listening and speaking skills equivalent at least to the intermediate-mid level of the ACTFL Proficiency. Demonstrate the ability to understand main ideas and facts from interactive exchanges and aural texts. Demonstrate the ability to handle successfully a variety of communicative tasks in straightforward social situations.
Possess reading and writing skills equivalent at least to the intermediate-mid level of the ACTFL Proficiency. Demonstrate the ability to read consistently with increased understanding texts dealing with a variety of social needs. Demonstrate the ability write short, simple communications, compositions, descriptions and requests for information that are based on personal preferences, daily routines, common events, and other topics related to immediate surroundings.
Translate U.S. Census questionnaire and/or Healthcare application form into the target language (Spanish). Demonstrate the ability to explain the survey guidelines and to complete the survey both verbally and in writing
Facilitate the community interviews, distinguish the socio-cultural-linguistic traits, and apply the knowledge of ethnolinguistic studies to understand how different ethnic/language groups perceive the world through the target language (Spanish).
Compare the differences between English and the target language (Spanish) in approaching the questions and in answering the questionnaires/surveys/forms and discriminating concepts/ideas that may be ‘lost in translation.’
Identify how the target Language (Spanish) is complexly intertwined with (Spanish speaking) culture (they have evolved together, influencing one another in the process, ultimately shaping what it means to be community).
Engage in conversations using level-appropriate grammatical structures, including narrating events that take place in the past.
Write simple to moderately complex sentences using level-appropriate grammatical structures and organizing them into cohesive paragraphs. Read and comprehend level-appropriate authentic texts.
Demonstrate understanding of level-appropriate spoken Spanish produced by Spanish speakers of Latin America and Spain
Identify and discuss traditions, cultural customs, and values of the Hispanic world
Demonstrate analytic, interpretative and critical thinking skills, at the appropriate, level with respect to literary texts, readings, and short films, presenting social justice issues and representative of diverse Spanish speakers (Latin America and Spain).

D1-2. Lower-division Social Science Electives Learning Outcomes

specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.